So the Cub fan/resident Sosa apologist in my office said Sosa should get in since nobody has every said they witnessed him taking the stuff, was told by him he has taken the stuff or supplied him with it.

I told him by that reasoning, we should stop saying Lee Harvey Oswald killed JFK because he was never convicted of the crime.

I would except that he's hurting right now. The Bears let him down this season (he predicted 13-3) and he feels the Cubs are nothing to look forward to until 2015. He's not a basketball or hockey fan, so he is wandering around with a dazed, lost look in his eye. A life with no purpose.

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Jack Morris got the same votes as last year, 66.7%, Bagwell and Piazza got 59.6 and 57.8%, Tim Raines got 52%, Clemens and Bonds got 37.6% and 36.2% of the vote, Sosa got 12.5%, Kenny Lofton and Sandy Alomar are off the ballot.

Next year's ballot has locks like Glavine, Maddux, and (hopefully!) Frank Thomas on it. It will be really interesting to see what impact that has on guys like Raines, Smith and Morris and if guys are punishing Bonds and Clemens for one year or forever.

Next year's ballot has locks like Glavine, Maddux, and (hopefully!) Frank Thomas on it. It will be really interesting to see what impact that has on guys like Raines, Smith and Morris and if guys are punishing Bonds and Clemens for one year or forever.

I'm as big a Thomas fan as anybody, but after this year I don't see him going in first ballot.

"Genius is not replicable. Inspiration, though, is contagious, and multiform — and even just to see, close up, power and aggression made vulnerable to beauty is to feel inspired and (in a fleeting, mortal way) reconciled."
--David Foster Wallace, () "Roger Federer as Religious Experience"

I'm as big a Thomas fan as anybody, but after this year I don't see him going in first ballot.

It will be interesting, the one thing that should help Frank immensely is that as early as 1995 he (and Tony Gwynn) were telling reporters that guys were "doing things that weren't natural." Frank's outspokenness about steroids SHOULD help him. But you never know.

I'm as big a Thomas fan as anybody, but after this year I don't see him going in first ballot.

Now that I think about it, if he does get in first ballot and the steroid guys are just getting a one year slap on the wrist, it'll be quite an uncomfortable moment for them when Frank gives his speech.

I'm as big a Thomas fan as anybody, but after this year I don't see him going in first ballot.

I wouldn't be surprised if Thomas, Glavine, Maddux, and Biggio all get in next year. The guy it may hurt is Tim Raines. If Schilling, Piazza, Bagwell, Bonds, and Clemens gets boosts next year, then Raines may fall back further.